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Radial glia functions as neural progenitors and as scaffolding supporting neuronal migration during CNS development. A study identifies brain lipid-binding protein as the first predominantly CNS-specific Notch target gene and mediates some aspects of Notch signaling in radial glia.

The mouse embryos heterozygous for a targeted mutation in the gene encoding the DLL4 ligand exhibit happloinsufficient lethality because of defects in vascular remodeling is reported. Notch pathway mutant embryos exhibit defects in arterial specification of nascent blood vessels and develop arteriovenous malformations.

Notch3 is required to generate functional arteries in mice by regulating arterial differentiation and maturation of vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMC) and that Notch3 is required for arterial specification of vSMC but not of endothelial cells. The data from observation on Notch3 mice reveal Notch3 to be first cell-autonomous regulator of arterial differentiation and maturation of vSMC.

Research has been conducted on left-right asymmetry generation in the vertebrate body. The authors demonstrate that Notch signaling is important for the asymmetry establishment in mice carrying it out via Nodal gene expression regulation.